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Article 6(a) — Don’t spy on business users to gain an unfair competitive advantage.
Currently, gatekeepers can use private data from their platform and monitor their business users’ data to determine how to place, price, and advertise competing goods or services. The DMA would ban this practice.
Article 6(b) — Do allow users to uninstall any pre-installed software applications
Gatekeepers would have to allow their users to uninstall any pre-installed software applications that are not essential to running the hardware.
Article 6(c) — Do allow third-party app stores and users to side-load apps.
Under the DMA, gatekeepers would only be allowed to prevent third-party app stores if they damage or undermine the “integrity of the hardware or operating system.”
Article 6(d) — Don’t give preference to platforms’ own products in rankings.
Gatekeepers would not be able to unfairly rank their own products and services more favorably than their competitors.
Article 6(e) — Don’t lock users in.
Gatekeepers would not be able to technically restrict users from deleting apps or switching away from default apps. They also cannot force users to use a particular internet service provider.
Article 6(f) — Do make platforms interoperable with other service providers.
Gatekeepers would have to make their platforms open to some key third-party service providers, like payment providers, digital identity providers, or ad-tech sellers, on the same terms as their own services.
Article 6(h) — Do make data portable and continuously accessible in real time.
Gatekeepers would have to give all users the ability to download their data and take it to a rival. They must also make both end and business user data continuously accessible in real time to their competitors.
Article 6(i) — Do give businesses access to their own data.
Gatekeepers would have to give business users real-time, continuous access to high-quality data from the gatekeepers’ platform about their sales, customers, and other commercial activity.